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As Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance campaigns across the country, his wife, Usha Vance, has been a near-constant presence by his side. Reporters huddled under the wing of JD Vance’s campaign plane often get a glimpse of a book's dust cover as Usha Vance climbs the towable stairs or stands on the tarmac. Though she’s a fixture on the campaign trail, Vance has not occupied a forward-facing public role like other political spouses. As JD Vance has noted on the campaign trail, she left her corporate law firm following the senator’s nomination for vice president in July. Usha Vance, an undergraduate student of history at Yale, went on to study early-modern history at the University of Cambridge.

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☆ Coca-Cola is pulling Spiced, its newest ‘permanent’ flavor, from store shelves
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Coca-Cola is discontinuing the production of its new Spiced flavor just six months after the soda hit shelves, marking the end of a disappointing attempt to attract younger drinkers. “As part of this strategy, we’re planning to phase out Coca-Cola Spiced to introduce an exciting new flavor in 2025,” a spokesperson said. The short lifespan of Spiced Coke is surprising, because the company promoted it as a permanent flavor. Coca-Cola introduced Spiced Coke in February with a splashy ad campaign. The beverage blended the traditional Coke flavor with raspberry notes.

Persons: ”, Coke, DJ Marshmello, Sue Lynne Cha, ” Cha, “, Coke’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, Dreamworld, North America, “, CNN Locations: New York

☆ 6 major differences between Netflix's 'The Perfect Couple' and the book it's based on — including a dramatically altered ending
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Merritt's death is accidental in the bookMeghann Fahy as Merritt Monaco in "The Perfect Couple." Jack Reynor as Thomas Winbury, Dakota Fanning as Abby Winbury in "The Perfect Couple." The bride-to-be is called Celeste, not AmeliaEve Hewson as Amelia Sacks in "The Perfect Couple." Greer's scandalous past has been invented for the showNicole Kidman as Greer Winbury in "The Perfect Couple." Will, the youngest brother, doesn't exist in the bookSam Nivola as Will Winbury in "The Perfect Couple."

Persons: —, Amelia Sacks, Eve Hewson, Benji Winbury, Billy Howle, Merritt Monaco, Meghann Fahy, Greer Garrison Winbury, Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Elin Hilderbrand's, Jenna Lamia, Susanne Bier, Hilary Bronwyn Gayle, Lamia, Dakota Fanning, Thomas, Jack Reynor, Abby, Merritt, It's, ingests, Thomas Winbury, Abby Winbury, that's, Greer, Celeste, Amelia Eve Hewson, Celeste Otis, Netflix's, Kidman, That's, Isabel Nallet, Featherleigh Dale, Shooter Dival, Nikki Henry, Donna Lynne Champlin, Greer Winbury, Broderick Graham, Tommy Flanagan, doesn't, Sam Nivola, Will Winbury, Liam Daniel, Winbury, Will, Abby wouldn't, Amelia Organizations: Service, Business, Netflix, London Zoo Locations: Nantucket, British

Courtesy Marian IppelHer lawsuit names as defendants the Grace Christian Reformed Church of Grand Rapids and affiliates, including the Christian Reformed Church in North America, a Protestant Calvinist Christian denomination also based in Grand Rapids. The Grace Christian Reformed Church did not immediately respond to requests for comment. “Recovered memory cases are difficult because you may need corroborating evidence, particularly when a child is very young,” Cadigan, who is not associated with Ippel’s case, said. The Christian Reformed Church in North America said it was unaware of any other complaints against the deacon, but said it investigates claims when people come forward. Abuse awarenessThe Christian Reformed Church, which counts about 230,000 followers in North America, has known of a history of abuse within its member churches, according to the suit.

Persons: Marian Ippel, ” Ippel, ” Marian Ippel, Ippel, Lynne Cadigan, ” Cadigan, ”, Marian, Ippel’s, Marian’s, “, wasn’t, Megan Bonanni, Larry Nassar, ” Bonanni, John Wixted, Wixted, James Hopper, Cadigan, they’re Organizations: Kent County Circuit, NBC News, Grace Christian Reformed Church, Christian Reformed Church, Catholic, “, Abuse Prevention, Catholic Church, University of California Locations: Grand Rapids , Michigan, Kent County, Grand Rapids, North America, Arizona, Guinea, Michigan, Manhattan Beach , California, San Diego

☆ Trump Amplifies Calls to Jail Top Elected Officials, Invokes Military Tribunals
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Chris Cameron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald J. Trump over the weekend escalated his vows to prosecute his political opponents, circulating posts on his social media website invoking “televised military tribunals” and calling for the jailing of President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer and former Vice President Mike Pence, among other high-profile politicians. Mr. Trump, using his account on Truth Social on Sunday, promoted two posts from other users of the site that called for the jailing of his perceived political enemies. One post that he circulated on Sunday singled out Liz Cheney, the former Wyoming congresswoman who is a Republican critic of Mr. Trump’s, and called for her to be prosecuted by a type of military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals. “Elizabeth Lynne Cheney is guilty of treason,” the post said. “Retruth if you want televised military tribunals.”

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Biden, Kamala Harris, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Mike Pence, Liz Cheney, Mr, Trump’s, “ Elizabeth Lynne Cheney, “, ” Locations: Wyoming

☆ Why AI deals in healthcare have grown faster than other areas of tech — and what VCs are paying close attention to
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Healthcare AI companies raised $2.8 billion in the first quarter of this year, according to the SVB report titled "The AI-powered Healthcare Experience." SVB projects funding to AI healthcare companies to total $11.1 billion in 2024. While healthcare AI startups might have it better, they're not out of the woods. Healthcare startups using AI for administrative tasks have grabbed $6.6 billion since 2021 and made up 42% of healthcare AI deals in the first quarter of this year, according to SVB. AdvertisementIn some cases, Big Tech companies are pushing healthcare startups forward.

Persons: —, Raysa Bousleiman, they're, Siva Namasivayam, Galym, Bousleiman, Shiv Rao Abridge, Lynne Chou O'Keefe, Lightspeed's Imanbayev Organizations: Service, Silicon Valley Bank, Business, Big Tech, Abridge, Health, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google, Fathom, Nvidia, Ventures, Technologies Locations: Cohere, Abridge, SVB .

☆ Brad Paisley and Howard Gospel Choir to be the entertainment for state dinner as Bidens highlight US-Kenya ties
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Betsy Klein | Samantha Waldenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

US President Gerald Ford dances with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during a state dinner in Washington, DC, in 1976. Jason Reed/Reuters The White House's State Dining Room is seen ahead of a state dinner honoring French President Emmanuel Macron in 2018. Paisley first performed at the White House in 2009 during the Obama administration as part of a music series. “Tomorrow night we’ve created an experience that will feature the beautiful scenes of the White House and the Washington Monument that few get to enjoy,” White House social secretary Carlos Elizondo said. Event planner Bryan Rafanelli also helped the White House plan for the state dinner.

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☆ Juli Lynne Charlot, Creator of the Poodle Skirt, Dies at 101
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Margalit Fox | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

What’s a nice Jewish viscountess to do when she has a title but no money, a party invitation but no clothes and a pair of scissors but no sewing skills? Invent the poodle skirt, of course. Ms. Charlot, a New York native who died at her home in Tepoztlán, Mexico, on Sunday at 101, had been a Hollywood singer before her marriage in the mid-1940s to a viscount, or British nobleman. The result, the embellished circle skirt, was ubiquitous throughout the 1950s, bought in droves by women and, in particular, adolescent girls. With its voluminous fabric that flared prettily when the wearer twirled, it was just the thing for a sock hop.

Persons: Juli Lynne Charlot, Charlot, jaunty Locations: New York, Tepoztlán, Mexico, Hollywood

☆ Coca-Cola is adding its first permanent flavor in three years
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —For the past few years, Coca-Cola has experimented with wacky limited-time offerings, but its latest flavor is its first permanent addition in a while. Coca-Cola Spiced is a new soda that blends the “iconic taste” of Coke with a “burst of refreshing notes from raspberry and spiced flavors,” the company announced Wednesday. Coke doesn’t often add new permanent flavors to its lineup: Spiced joins just a few other flavors it always sells, including its flagship flavor, cherry and vanilla. “It appears Coca-Cola is looking to splice that trend onto its flagship with hopes of getting young consumers to consider the entire franchise,” he told CNN. Coca-Cola Spiced goes on sale February 19 in both cans and bottles in various sizes at most national retailers.

Persons: Coke, it’s, Sue Lynne Cha, ”, there’s, Duane Stanford Organizations: New, New York CNN, North, CNN, “, Beverage Digest Locations: New York, Coke, Canada, North America

☆ Exclusive: AI healthcare software startup Cohere Health just raised $50 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Cohere Health just landed $50 million in Series B extension funding, Business Insider has learned exclusively. Deerfield Management led the Series B extension, with participation from Define Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Longitude Capital, and Polaris Partners. The Cohere Health team. This year, as it works to get more health plans to use its software, Cohere plans to grow its workforce. In the second quarter of this year, Cohere plans to announce software that will apply AI to medical imaging.

Persons: Siva Namasivayam, Cohere, Axios, Namasivayam, It's, Michael Greeley, Lynne Chou O'Keefe, Greeley, Cohere's Organizations: Cohere, Business, Deerfield Management, Define Ventures, Flare Capital, Longitude, Polaris Partners, Humana, Capital Partners, Cohere Health Locations: Deerfield, Cohere

☆ 25 healthcare startups that are set to take off in 2024, according to top VCs
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-18 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | Blake Dodge | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

AetionAetion's website. AetionPicked by: Lynne Chou O'Keefe, the founder and managing partner of Define VenturesWhat the company does: Aetion provides pharmaceutical companies, payers, and regulators with real-world evidence they can use to inform decisions. Aetion provides the real-world evidence that insurers, pharmaceutical companies, and regulatory agencies need to evaluate the value of drugs and inform those conversations, she said. "The cost of specialty drugs, what's happening in the Inflation Reduction Act — all are bellwethers that we need a more value-based-oriented system around therapeutics going forward," she said. — Shelby Livingston

Persons: Aetion, Lynne Chou O'Keefe, O'Keefe, — Shelby Livingston

☆ AI is not just chatting with us. It's learning how to turn verbal communications into real-world insights.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Hazel Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

New conversational AI tools are turning verbal communications into actionable insights for market research. With the advent of LLMs, increasingly sophisticated chatbots are relaying technical data in relatable, everyday speech. Avery is, in fact, a conversation bot made by market research firm Untold Insights, and is part of a new wave of transformative artificial-intelligence tools designed to turn verbal communications into actionable insights for business strategists. Avery not only processes and presents data but also personifies it, relaying data insights in a conversational Gen Z voice. "Generative AI cannot understand or manage technical data unless it is available in a unified business layer and given business meaning," Soto said.

Persons: —, Avery, Gen Zers, she'll, Avery isn't, Zers, Adelynne Chao, Steve McGovern, McGovern, Stratio, Oscar Méndez Soto, Ernesto Funes, Stratio BD, Soto Organizations: Business, Service, Santander, HSBC, BBVA Locations: relatable

☆ Sarina Wiegman: How the Dutchwoman turned England into a winning ‘machine’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Thomas Schlachter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Turning cubs into LionessesIn the last major tournament before Wiegman took over, England crashed out in heartbreaking circumstances. England crashed out of the 2019 Women's World Cup in the semifinals. While the England players’ abilities speak for themselves, Wiegman has helped to instill a formidable team mindset in the group through some “non-negotiable” philosophies. “I think in a team you always have to do your best,” she told CNN before the start of the Women’s World Cup. Before the World Cup, England had won 26 of the 32 games under Wiegman and had only lost once – a friendly against Australia in April.

Persons: Phil Neville, Sarina Wiegman, Wiegman, –, Steph Houghton, Franck Fife, ”, Mark Bullingham, “, what’s, Lynne Cameron, Leah Williamson, Beth Mead –, ” Wiegman, Arjan Veurink, Arjan, Veurink, ‘, ’, ‘ You’re, Naomi Baker, Lauren, Keira Walsh, Lauren James, James, we’re, Chloe Kelly, Emma Hayes, CNN’s Amanda Davies, – she’s, Hayes, we're, “ They’ve, we’ve, ” Hayes, “ We’re, “ I’m Organizations: CNN, US, European, England, Getty, Football, Wembley, Germany, Independent, Australia, Nigeria, BBC, Chelsea Locations: England, Netherlands, Lionesses, AFP, Germany, “, Australia, New Zealand

☆ Healthcare VCs are focusing their bets on a handful of top startups, forcing the rest to scramble to stay afloat
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

In the first half of 2023, healthcare investors have written big checks for their top startup picks. 2023 is on track to be the lowest year of healthcare funding since 2019, Rock Health says. Digital-health startups in the US raised $6.1 billion in the first half of 2023, Rock Health's H1 2023 funding report published on Monday found. Right now, 2023 is on track to be the lowest healthcare funding year since 2019, according to Rock Health. Krasniansky said Rock Health expects many of the impending shutdowns to impact healthcare startups that sell products and services to patients online and on-demand, especially direct-to-consumer companies like telemedicine or mail-order-pharmacy startups.

Persons: It's, haven't, Healthcare's, healthcare's, Adriana Krasniansky, Krasniansky, Ian Chiang, he's, Lynne Chou O'Keefe, it's, Corey McCann, Chou O'Keefe, — Organizations: Rock Health, megadeals, Monogram Health, Frist Cressey Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Define Ventures, Pear, Madison, Pear Therapeutics

☆ In return to office messaging, there's now more stick, less carrot
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Cheryl Winokur Munk | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

This marks a shift from the incentive culture that many companies have been using to lure workers back to the office post-pandemic. But workforce demographics vary widely when it comes to the benefits, and the desire, to return to the office. Employees who work from the office at least three times a week report feeling more connected to their colleagues, a company spokesman said. This could mean, for instance, spelling out to the sales team that Mondays and Wednesdays are in-office days because that's when the bulk of customer interactions happen, and making clear to engineering that Thursdays are in-office days because that's when code reviews happen. This comes as the company will start mandating employees be in the office four days a week, up from three days, after Labor Day.

Persons: Bradford, Bell, William J, Conaty, there's, slowdowns, Morgan Chase, Davis Polk, Sallie Krawcheck, Lynne C, Vincent, Jenny von Podewils, Podewils, Rubab Jafry O'Connor, Neil Barr Organizations: Resources, Center, Cornell University's ILR, Google, Skadden, Wardwell, LaSalle Network, Citi, Bank of America, CNBC, Companies, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, Employees, Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, Labor Locations: Slate

BARONE The book could not be staged as-is now, just as much of opera makes you cringe the closer you look. VINCENTELLI The “Phantom” legacy is most visible in business terms, with a generation of blockbusters that run for years, decades even. The current “Sweeney Todd” revival has luscious orchestrations but the staging and most of the performances are so timid. A couple of years ago I saw “Phantom” at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki. “Phantom” is similar to Puccini not only in its music, but also in its specificity; you can’t really stretch Puccini, conceptually, and with “Phantom,” you have to either go big or go home.

☆ Women’s soccer is booming in England. But the big money hasn't caught up yet
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-07 | by ( Jenni Reid | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

All available tickets for the 90,000-capacity stadium were snapped up 15 minutes after going on sale, the U.K.'s fastest-ever sellout for the women's game. That trend has continued with the start of the 2022-23 season of the Women's Super League, the top tier of women's soccer in England. More money, more qualityWomen were banned from playing on Football Association grounds until 1971, and there wasn't a fully professional women's league until 2018. Major publishers like BBC Sport have also made moves to include the women's game more prominently in coverage. "Unbundling would attract more brands who see the women's game as their marketing focus and not just an add-on," Baroni said.

☆ ‘I’ve always wanted to be a tree’: Human composting starts to catch on
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Evan Bush | Evan Bush Is A Science Reporter For Nbc News. He Can Be Reached At Evan.Bush Nbcuni.Com. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

The bill took cues from Washington state, where lawmakers in 2019 became the first in the U.S. to legalize human composting and where a nascent industry is growing. Four Washington state funeral facilities are now licensed to perform natural organic reduction, according to Rob Goff, the executive director of the Washington State Funeral Directors Association. California’s law will give regulators with the state’s Cemetery and Funeral Bureau until 2027 to create regulations for a human composting program. The know-how behind human composting began in ranchers’ fields. Human composting could instead help soils sequester carbon and provide nutrients for plant life.

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